I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.

If I defected at all, I defected from the government to the public

Baseball is a game where you are always waiting, and then when something happens it's like turning a kaleidoscope when you were a kid.

With discipline, belief, and the right knowledge, we become the best we can be.

I think that the, Ted Cruz is not even a natural-born citizen, argument will resonate for at least the next few weeks.

Strength that has effort in it is not what you need; you need the strength that is the result of ease.

Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.

If it works, it's obsolete.

and "good" doesn't mean he's worthy of you , does it ?

We will suffer the moment we take our eyes off the End and get lost in the means.